‘Putting the right species back in the right place’: expressed in the words of Bruce Pavlik, the Head of Restoration Ecology at the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Gardens in a fundraising clip for the Breathing Planet Campaign, the work of biodiversity repositories seems straightforward. A simple matter of renewing the colonial and capitalistic capture of nature by exhausting its diversity in collecting, and then of reinserting species, suspended in the form of genetic information, into the neat spaces their disappearance or almost-dispappearance has left in their original ecosystems, the redemptive value of biodiversity repositories seems unquestionable. ‘There is no technological reason why any species should go extinct’, the clip goes on.The cryopreservation of genetic material in seed banks and ‘frozen zoos’ is often and justifiably understood as genetic-fetishistic suspension, several times removed from animal lives in actual habitats; I propose however to read them as world-making devices in their own right too, more entangled and entangling than they might present themselves to be. Collecting and saving are two mandates that have effects both on the species whose genetic information is banked and on the natures that are made possible or impossible through the projects delineated by biodiversity repositories; but they have also been implicated in a third such mandate, the assisted adaptation of species to anthropogenic climate change (be it the plan for ‘chaperoned assisted relocation’ proposed by the Missouri Botanical Garden or the ‘cultivation of marginally hardy taxa’ proposed at the Arnold Arboretum). How are biodiversity repositories an active intervention into the shaping of natures both inside and outside, and what are the consequences of what happens within the apparatus of these repositories for wider understandings of landscapes and species under threat? How linked is the suspension of metabolic processes and evolutionary potential and the understanding of Earth as manageable, perhaps even terraformable? What do they contribute to conservation biology’s biopolitical and cultural shaping of individuals, species, ecosystems suspended and remade through the different uses for which biodiversity repositories can be put to work?

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收集，保存，适应：制作和制作非原生世界

“将正确的物种放回正确的位置”：用Kew Gardens千年种子库的恢复生态学负责人布鲁斯·帕夫利克（Bruce Pavlik）的话表达了“呼吸星球”运动的筹款片段，生物多样性存储库的工作似乎很简单。一个简单的问题是通过耗尽自然界的多样性来更新殖民主义和资本主义对自然的捕获，然后将以遗传信息形式悬浮的物种重新插入到其消失或几乎消失的原始空间的整洁空间中，生物多样性储存库的赎回价值似乎毫无疑问。剪辑继续说：“没有任何技术理由使任何物种灭绝”。种子库和“冰冻动物园”中的遗传物质的低温保存通常被有理由地理解为遗传拜物教的悬浮，从实际栖息地的动物生活中去除了几次。但是，我建议将它们本身理解为制造世界的装置，比它们可能呈现的样子更纠结和纠结。收集和保存是两项任务，对遗传信息被保存的物种和通过生物多样性储存库划定的项目可能或不可能实现的自然都有影响；但它们也牵涉到第三项此类任务，协助物种适应人为气候变化（无论是密苏里植物园提出的“陪伴性搬迁计划”还是阿诺德植物园提出的“培育濒危植物群”计划）。生物多样性储存库如何积极干预内部和外部自然的塑造，以及这些储存库设备内发生的事情对于更广泛地了解受威胁的景观和物种有何后果？代谢过程和进化潜能的中止与对地球的理解是可管理的，甚至是可变形的，如何联系在一起？它们对保护生物学对个体，物种的生物政治和文化塑造有何贡献，